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A full-time 3-year position as a PhD student at Clinical Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Environmental Medicine (CPPEM) at the Department of Public Health, SDU is vacant from December 1st 2025.

Research environment
The PhD position is funded by a European Research Council Advanced grant entitled “PFAS Forever-Everywhere” (more information here: https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/46/6/501/7921186). The PhD student will primarily be investigating whether reducing one's PFAS levels also causes a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease due to the lowering of cholesterol levels.
In this project, the PhD student will learn to understand and apply modern causal inference techniques such as target trial emulation, marginal structural models and G-computation to observational data from the Copenhagen City Heart Study and the Danish nationwide registries.

The successful applicant does not need to be familiar with these techniques but have a genuine interest in understanding advanced statistics.
The project is performed in close collaboration with researchers from the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, so good collaboration skills are required.

The position is placed within CPPEM, which is a highly motivated research unit that performs research within pharmacology and environmental medicine. The research areas of CPPEM span from environmental medicine to pharmacoepidemiology, clinical studies and cell-based basic pharmacology. Collectively, CPPEM has a strong background in exposure to environmental chemicals, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacogenetics, pharmacokinetics, drug-drug interactions and therapeutic drug monitoring.
Specifically, the environmental medicine group studies the impact of early life exposures to environmental chemicals. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a main focus area, with studies of the adverse health effects of exposure, biomonitoring and advising national and international authorities.

We offer an attractive, flexible and inspiring work environment with dedicated and highly skilled colleagues. As a department, we value having an informal culture and dialogue across all job functions at the department. Further, attracting and training excellent young researchers is a priority.
In your daily work, you will report to associate professor Lars Christian Lund and Professor Tina Kold Jensen, but you will be expected to contribute to the whole research unit.

Qualifications
We are looking for an individual with a Master's degree or equivalent within Public Health, Medicine, Data Science, Statistics or other fields related to Epidemiology or Environmental Medicine. The ideal candidate has prior experience in working with health data, has previously worked with R or similar statistical analysis environments and has at least a basic understanding of statistics.
If you do not have any experience with the above but are interested in the topic, we still encourage you to apply, as we are mainly looking for a highly motivated individual that is willing to learn and does not shy away from learning new skills.
Besides research, the PhD student is expected to help with the department's teaching obligations in accordance with his or her own background.
The candidate should be fluent in spoken and written English as we are an international department. We expect international PhD students to relocate to Denmark, for which the University of Southern Denmark and the environmental medicine research group will provide ample support.

We have a flexible working culture with the possibility to work from home if needed but expect the PhD student to mainly work from the office and thereby contribute to our warm and welcoming work environment.

Additional information about the position can be obtained from Lars Christian Lund (lclund@health.sdu.dk; +45 65504967).

Further information about the PhD-study can be found at the homepage of the University.

Applications must include:

• A letter stating the interest, motivation and qualifications for the project (max. 2 pages)
• Detailed CV, including personal contact information and publication list
• Certified copy of diploma (Master’s degree in a relevant field)

Shortlisting may be used in the assessment process.

Interviews can be performed online if needed but physical interviews are preferred.

Applications must be submitted electronically using the link "Apply now". Attached files must be in Adobe PDF format. We strongly recommend that you read How to apply for a position at SDU before you apply.

Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated. This also applies to reference letters.


Closing date October 31st 2025

Successful candidates will be asked to send an application to the PhD Secretariat, Faculty of Health Sciences, to be enrolled as PhD students.

The PhD programme will be carried out in accordance with Faculty regulations and the Danish Ministerial Order on the PhD Programme at the Universities (PhD order)

The terms of employment as a salaried PhD Research Fellow are stated in the Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

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